Abstract
Crime mapping and spatial analysis of crime remains one of the most active fields regarding the applications of geospatial technologies. Included in the book series of Geotechnologies and Environment by Springer, Crime modeling and Mapping Using Geospatial Technologies, edited by Michael Leitner, presents a rich collection of the latest research applying cutting edge geo-techniques to crime mapping and spatial analysis of crime. This book is made up of eighteen chapters which cover a broad range of topics such as spatial analysis of drug market areas, spatiotemporal clustering of crime hot spots, journey to crime, and campus crime. Whereas most chapters of this book focused on the analysis of crime occurred in U.S. cities, several chapters investigated the geography of criminal activity in Belgium, Canada, England, and Mexico. Each chapter addresses different problems and uses unique GIS-based approaches; yet, they are grouped into four sections according their emphases: Fundamental spatial problems, crime analysis, crime modeling, crime mapping, and applications and implementations. In fact, it may be more reasonable to classify those works by units of analysis (e.g., street crime, journey to crime, neighborhood crime, campus crime, and spatiotemporal clustering of crime) because mapping, analysis, and modeling of crime are techniques intertwined with each other and some chapters still fit well if being placed into other sections
Recommended Citation
Zhang, Charlie
(2013)
"Crime Modeling and Mapping Using Geospatial Technologies, edited by Michael Leitner. Springer. 2013. Series: Geotechnologiesand the Environment, Vol. 8. XIII + 446 pp.,152 illus., 110 illus. in color. ISBN 978-94-007-4997-9,"
The Geographical Bulletin: Vol. 54:
Iss.
2, Article 4.
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https://digitalcommons.kennesaw.edu/thegeographicalbulletin/vol54/iss2/4